Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Pepe Escobar" in English language version.
Uno de los temas tratados por Escobar en 'Global Research' fue el de la crisis de la independencia catalana en 2017, y en un artículo dijo que España vivía en un estado de fascismo permanente, gobernada entonces por alguien a quien llamaba «Nano-Franco».. Por lo demás, los lamentos de Escobar, en inglés, español o portugués, son los habituales de la desinformación rusa: imperialismo 'yanqui', excesos de la OTAN, victimismo ruso.[One of the topics Escobar covered in 'Global Research' was the Catalan independence crisis in 2017, and in an article he said that Spain was living in a state of permanent fascism, governed at the time by someone he called "Nano-Franco"...Otherwise, Escobar's lamentations, in English, Spanish or Portuguese, are the usual ones of Russian disinformation: 'Yankee' imperialism, NATO excesses, Russian victimization.]
Beyond the tragedy and grief of civil war, Syria is also a Pipelineistan power play. More than a year ago, a $10 billion Pipelineistan deal was clinched between Iran, Iraq and Syria for a natural gas pipeline to be built by 2016 from Iran's giant South Pars field, traversing Iraq and Syria, with a possible extension to Lebanon. Key export target market: Europe... The Iran-Iraq-Syria gas pipeline would be essential to diversify Europe's energy supplies away from Russia.
On August 30, 2001, less than two weeks before the event that was to become known as 9/11, Asia Times Online (as this website was called at the time) published an article by this writer titled 'Get Osama! Now! Or else …' Back then, hardly anyone in the West had heard of Osama bin Laden. The original article, which burned up the search engines after the Twin Towers came down, is reproduced here in its entirety.
The Pakistani-based Al-Rashid Trust is one of the key organizations included in America's black book of terrorist groups...Pakistani banks, after President General Pervez Musharraf's spectacular pro-US realignment, froze Al-Rashid's bank accounts, but this does not seem to pose a problem: the trust opened new accounts in the names of individuals
the story of how an al-Qaeda asset turned out to be the top Libyan military commander in still war-torn Tripoli...[even though] Every intelligence agency in the US, Europe and the Arab world knows where he's coming from.
Fascist Franco may have been dead for more than four decades, but Spain is still encumbered with his dictatorial corpse...Crimea was part of a legitimate reunification drive to rectify Nikita Khrushchev's idiocy of separating it from Russia.
Today on Radio New Zealand's Saturday interview slot with Kim Hill, he [Pepe Escobar] exposed the realities of post-Gaddafi Libya. He warned that an Al Qaeda extremist (Abdel Hakim Belhaj) was now rebel military commander in Tripoli and the country could now slide into a protracted conflict with two guerrilla forces warring with a weak new central regime - Gaddafi loyalists and Jihadist fundamentalists.
Escobar, who has coined the term 'Pipelineistan' to describe the vast network of oil and gas pipelines that 'crisscross the potential imperial battlefields of the planet,' sees Afghanistan 'at the core of Pipelineistan,' strategically placed between the Middle East, Central and South Asia.'
operating [in Kabul] under the Taliban was dangerous. In August 2000, Pakistani Khawar Mehdi, American Jason Florio, and Brazilian Pepe Escobar were arrested, questioned, accused of photographing a soccer match, and had their film confiscated.
...the oil-rich area of the globe, which investigative journalist Pepe Escobar (2009a) fallaciously calls "Pipelineistan," where much of the political and military tension is related to the struggle to control regional energy supplies. Escobar (2009b) warns us to 'forget the mainstream media's obsession with al-Qaeda, Osama 'dead or alive' bin Laden, the Taliban..or that 'war on terror,' whatever name it goes by. These are diversions compared to the high-stakes, hardcord geopolitical game that follows what flows along the pipelines of the planet.'
The New Great Game of the twenty-first century is always over energy and it's taking place on an immense chessboard called Eurasia. Its squares are defined by the networks of pipelines being laid across the oil heartlands of the planet. Call it Pipelineistan.
An emerging narrative has instead focussed on the issue of proposed gas pipelines in Syria as a way of understanding foreign intervention in the country...News outlets such as Al Jazeera and the UK Guardian have carried stories that oil and gas interests are central factors for understanding foreign intervention in Syria (Ahmed, 2013; Escobar, 2012).
Brazilian journalist Pepe Escobar, who writes regularly for 'Asia Times Online,' has published highly informative articles and books on the global battles over what he has described as 'Pipelinestan.' With a wry and cynical sense of humor, his 'Roving Eye' has described the competition for dominance over the Middle East and Central Asia.
He was in Afghanistan and interviewed the military leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, Ahmad Shah Masoud, a couple of weeks before his assassination (Masoud: From warrior to statesman, Sept 11, 2001). Two weeks before September 11, while Pepe was in the tribal areas of Pakistan, The Asia Times published his prophetic piece, Get Osama! Now! Or else. (Aug 30, 2001). Pepe was one of the first journalists to reach Kabul after the Taliban's retreat
Six years into a conflict that has killed at least 400,000 people, there is a widely held belief that the bloodshed in Syria is simply another war over Middle Eastern energy resources...the Qatari-based Al Jazeera first floated the concept of a 'Pipelineistan war' in 2012. Even US establishment journal Foreign Affairs and the Guardian newspaper picked up on the theory
Knowing his [Escobar's] proclivity for following energy flows the way normal tourists might follow the sun, I asked him if he might offer TomDispatch readers periodic 'postcards' from the energy heartlands of the planet.
Pepe Escobar, a left-wing writer for Asia Times and frequent guest on RT, was happy to pile on, making the case that, in the United States, 'we had a stolen election in 2000 [and] we had a semi-stolen election in 2004.'
Russia continues to use a network of proxy websites to spread pro-Kremlin disinformation and propaganda.
Escobar was interviewed by Sputnik on 22 February and he accused Joe Biden of being 'a puppet' of the American powers-that-be, including Hillary Clinton, who are driven by 'Russophobia' and 'confrontation with Russia by any means necessary with a single goal, to cut Russia off from the European economy'
That's why TomDispatch's peripatetic reporter Pepe Escobar, who roams Eurasia, especially the region he long ago dubbed Pipelineistan, is like a breath of fresh air. He reminds us that there are still places where people are talking about – gasp! – building up infrastructure in a big way
Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar has reported that Abdel Hakim Belhadj, now the military commander of Tripoli, is a former al-Qaeda fighter. According to Escobar, Belhadj was trained in Afghanistan by a "very hardcore Islamist Libyan group," reportedly al-Jama al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi Libya -- known as the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, it was declared a terrorist organization affiliated with al-Qaeda.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)Over the last decade, Asia Times Online has become one of the most popular - and authoritative - site when it comes to covering Asia's news and politics... A number of top journalists and commentators write weekly on the Asia Times site, including .. Pepe Escobar, who famously wrote a piece titled 'Get Osama! Now! Or Else...' two weeks before the 9/11 terrorist attack masterminded by Osama bin Laden.
An emerging narrative has instead focussed on the issue of proposed gas pipelines in Syria as a way of understanding foreign intervention in the country...News outlets such as Al Jazeera and the UK Guardian have carried stories that oil and gas interests are central factors for understanding foreign intervention in Syria (Ahmed, 2013; Escobar, 2012).
this report draws on publicly available reporting to provide an overview of Russia's disinformation and propaganda ecosystem...[which] is the collection of official, proxy, and unattributed communication channels and platforms that Russia uses to create and amplify false narratives.
A proxy site is an unofficial mouthpiece promoting disinformation and propaganda. In the context of Russian disinformation and propaganda, some proxy sites have direct links to the Russian state, some are enmeshed in Russia's disinformation and propaganda ecosystem, and others are more loosely connected via the narratives they promote... RT and Sputnik have mutually beneficial relationships with writers for proxy sites, including... Pepe Escobar
The investigative reporter behind uncovering the gigantic Libyan con is Brazilian-born Emilio (Pepe) Escobar, a reporter for the online Asia Times. From North Africa to the Middle East to Pakistan, he is well known for breaking stories in the Arab and Muslim worlds.
He was in Afghanistan and interviewed the military leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, Ahmad Shah Masoud, a couple of weeks before his assassination (Masoud: From warrior to statesman, Sept 11, 2001). Two weeks before September 11, while Pepe was in the tribal areas of Pakistan, The Asia Times published his prophetic piece, Get Osama! Now! Or else. (Aug 30, 2001). Pepe was one of the first journalists to reach Kabul after the Taliban's retreat
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